Daily Calendar for Friday, January 31, 2025

Events

• Anton Chekov’s play, Three Sisters, premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre– 1901
• A Napier was the first car to go over 100 mph– 1905
• The German government informed the U.S. that unrestricted submarine warfare would begin on February 1, 1917– 1917
• The Green Hornet made its radio debut– 1936
• Yugoslavia adopted its constitution and officially became a people’s republic– 1946
• The U.S. released 33 former Nazis incarcerated for war crimes, including Alfred Krupp– 1951
• Explorer I, first U.S. satellite, launched– 1958
• Explorer 1, first successful U.S. satellite, was launched – 1958
• Ham, a male chimpanzee, was recovered alive in the Caribbean after being carried to a height of 155 miles in a U.S. space capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida– 1961
• National Traffic Safety Agency issued the first set of U.S. federal safety standards for vehicle safety– 1967
• North Vietnam launched the Tet Offensive, attacking South Vietnamese towns– 1968
• Limited telephone service re-established between East and West Berlin for the first time in 19 years– 1971
• Apollo 14 manned spacecraft launched– 1971
• Paul and Linda McCartney appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone. This made Linda McCartney the first person to have both taken a photo, and to have been photographed, for the front cover of the magazine.– 1974
• The first McDonald’s opened in Moscow, Russia– 1990
• Samuel Alito was sworn in as the 110th U.S. Supreme Court justice– 2006